Franklin D. Roosevelt: Kansas Forgets & Great Quotes for Trying Times

[AuntiBush]

Some thoughts from President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Thoughts that might help some of us during these trying, confusing and Cocko-Banana times. And so it seems, Kansas has forgot about the days when a President's door was opened for any American's pleas for help.

At least he read those letters, unlike todays administration.

Take a look at the terror on these folks from Kanasas and what they went through on April 14, 1935. What's the matter with Kansas, anyway? Have they forgotten who helped them during their time of need...

Suppose I need to read that book to find out. Then again, it's not like I really care anymore , sadly. But, I didn't ask to be placed in this position. No, I was given no choice but to feel as I do. Guess push finally came to shove.

First Photo: Letters written to President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Dust Storm in Rolla, Kansas; "05/06/35;
Dear Mr. Roosevelt, Darkness came when it hit us. Picture taken from water tower one hundred feet high.
Yours Truly, Chas. P. Williams."



Second Photo: Massive Dark cloud approaching village in forefront.
Entitled, Dust Storms: Turtle Studio; "Dust Storm in Liberal, Kansas."



Bet many didn't know Kansas had a town named "Liberal."
Wondering if the town's been re-named, yet... not giving them any ideas, mind you.

Online Link to FDR Library: http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu:8000/browse.cgi?db=1&pos=1

Photos from Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
All Photos are Royalty-Free. Again, thanks to the FDR Library. Open to the public both on-site and online .

More Online Sources:

Freedom of Speech
Freedom of Worship
Freedom from Want
Freedom from Fear
~ From FDR'S 1941 State of the Union Address ~

Other famous quotes from President Franklin D. Roosevelt:

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; It is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

"I never forget that I live in a house owned by all the American People and that I have been given their trust."

"I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives." "I have seen war - I hate war!"

"there is nothing to fear but fear itself."

"I propose to creat a civilian conservation corps to be used in simple work... More important, however than the material gains will be the moral and spiritual value of such work."

Morals, values and spiritual: Sound familiar?

"We must scrupulously guard the civil rights and civil liberties of all citizens, whatever their background."

"We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization."

"We have faith that future generations will know that here in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite and produce and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance and intolerance and slavery, and war."

"I pledge you, I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people."
~ FDR'S 1932 FDR acceptance speech ~

"The structure of world peace cannot be a peace cannot be the word of one man, or one party, or one nation, it much be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world." The 1st First Lady honored with a statue set in a presidential memorial.
~ First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt ~

FDR Web Sites Worthy of Visiting:

Official Franklin D. Roosevelt Web Site: http://www.nps.gov/fdrm/home.htm
Tour his Memorial: http://www.nps.gov/fdrm/memorial/room1.htm
Photos of FDR'S Memorial in D.C.: http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Cathedral/8789/fdr.htm.
Warm Springs: Founded by FDR for Polio Victims: http://www.warmspringsga.com/warmsprings.asp
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum: http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/
Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Home Page: http://www.nps.gov/fdrm
Home Of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site: http://www.nps.gov/hofr/
Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site: http://www.nps.gov/elro/
Fireside Chats of Franklin D. Roosevelt: http://www.mhric.org/fdr/fdr.html
FDR Cartoon Collection Database: http://www.nisk.k12.ny.us/fdr/

"The test of our progress," said Roosevelt, "is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

~ President Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
What a great American patriot President he was, in deed. And, an even greater human being.

[DURHAM D]

1. Thanks for those pics. I grew up in Kansas and as a child

remember several times while we were outside playing when all of a sudden during the middle of the day dust storms would roll in and it would become completely dark and nasty. We were told to just get in a ditch until it passed. To be honest, we thought it was kind of fun.

With regard to FDR - he was hated by everyone I knew. I never heard one kind word about him until I went to college in the 60s. There is a small black bug (beetle) that is very common in Kansas that gets into the house. It is about 1/2 inch long and slow moving. Anyway, the name of the bug is Democrat. Because they moved slowly we could always just step on them and when you do everyone (without even thinking about what they are saying) says "Killed another Democrat". Last Christmas while visitng in Kansas I watched as my 6 year old neice did exactly that.

The one person hated more than FDR was Mrs. Roosevelt. To this day everyone that I am around (central Kansas) refers to her as Mrs. Hoosevelt - never, never, never as Elinore or Mrs. Roosevelt.

[AuntiBush]

2. That's sad. Have they any idea how much Eleanor Roosevelt

did for all American's civil liberties during that era?

Sad... With respect to Democrat Kansas citizens, the other's need to practice what their churches preach.

Matthews 5:7

[AuntiBush]

3. P.S. I read the history. Some of my ancestors are in Kansas.

Oklahoma, too... the "Trail of Tears."

Native American here.

[DURHAM D]

6. What tribe ? My Dad is from Muskogee. He is not Native

American but my sister-in-law is Cherokee.

[cap]

4. how much did folks in central Kansas benefit from his policies?

I think they take it for granted.. like Social Security. One way to get rid of the deficit might be to ask the FDR haters to give up their own Social Security, etc. That way the rest of us who want it can have their share.

[DURHAM D]

5. Folks in Kansas still benefit from FDR programs other than ss.

My mother still gets a check every month (maybe yearly now) for not growing anything on parts of her land. These checks have been coming since the 50s that I know of. Still, they hate FDR. I think this Democrat hating thing is their way to maintain that they are the breadbasket of the nation, that they are the best Americans, that they are the heart of the nation. I don't know exactly what it means to hate the hand that feeds you but I know they are unable to stop and examine the myth of their perfection.

I occasionally like to remind my mother that the source of her wealth was free land from the government she hates. Land, by the way, that has several pumping oilwells. She truly and absolutely believes that her money is from hard work. She has been asking me for 40 years what I am going to do with the money I inherit. I always respond that I will give it to feed the world's hungry. Makes her crazy - she thinks people are hungry because they don't work hard.

[hfojvt]

7. well, his second opponent was Alf Landon, former gov. of Kansas

but I am still betting that Roosevelt got hundreds of thousands of votes in Kansas. Kansas was one of the few states where the left-wing radical populist (farmers) party ruled the state legislature around the year 1900. Oklahoma was one of the states which had the highest percentage which voted for the socialist Eugene Debs in 1912 and 1920.
My dad's dad was in Wisconsin and he hated FDR with a passion. He believed in LIHOP about Pearl Harbor.
So there is no need to single Kansas out in this regard. It is part of the solid Republican west, which has voted Republican for President for most of the last hundred years, although other western states like Nebraska, SD, and ND do manage to send DINOs (and McGovern!) to Congress.